Today was a very sad day to be a Republican.

[catbyte]

Link to tweet

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Every day is a sad day to be a Republican.

But a lot of them haven't figured that out yet.

[DENVERPOPS]

29. I suspect this gentleman is

I suspect this gentleman is like most other Republican Voters.
They truly down deep think Trump and all that they have done since he was elected, is despicable...They want him out of there as much as we do...........

However, they are not thinking that the rest of the Republican Party is so despicable that if Trump is impeached out of there, Pence becomes president, the Republicans put some other True Blue Republican Fascist as vice president, they leave all the Republican Senators and much of the Trump appointed cabinet members and administration members, people like this guy would continue to back and vote for the Republican Party.........

People.......Trump is a miniscule part. The Republican Senate, The DOJ, The Supreme Court, etc etc are the ones using Trump to distract daily from the hundreds or even a thousand things they are accomplishing in the shadows and in the back ground.
The worst, is the Republican Senate who is in Lock Step with Trump. It is because of them, that all this is allowed to happen.
Period.

Historians over the next fifty+ years will be writing libraries full of books about these three years and what ever comes afterwards.
(Although, if they continue to remain in power, I earnestly suspect that the freedom to write anything will be seriously constrained, or even allowed.)

It's as if they all have copies of "ANIMAL FARM" in their coat pockets and are using it as a guideline for our government.
(If you think I am kidding, I dare you to go buy a copy of Orswell's book ANIMAL FARM and read it)

[The Roux Comes First]

31. Yup

Libraries must be prepared for the attacks they will experience if this shit is not stopped.

[bitterross]

2. Given their ability to stay in denial - I doubt it.

For people grounded in reality, it's a bad day. For the cult of Trump, not so much. They're in complete denial about his crimes.

[Jewls2]

3. It should be awfully embarrassing. Three years.

How do they look into others eyes, in all seriousness.

[gopiscrap]

34. welcome to DU

[lpbk2713]

4. Get over your old self.

This is just the beginning.

[Kurt V.]

5. then he should read yoni applebaums piece on how the *conservative movement* pushed

out the moderates and gave us this republican party. fuck him

[gratuitous]

6. The kids in cages wasn't a sad day, Swiftie?

The torture revelations weren't sad days?

Your president declaring the media the enemy of the people multiple times weren't sad days?

Sean Spicer intoning "Biggest. Inaugural. Ever." wasn't a sad day?

Your president making fun of the disabled wasn't a sad day?

Your president running down a Gold Star family wasn't a sad day?

Wow, you sure are a chipper fellow, Jim.

One last question: WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?

[underpants]

10. THIS

[Ferrets are Cool]

14. This! What an ugly human being to ignore all these other things

and THIS is what makes you sad. FUCK YOU Mr Swift!

[zentrum]

17. Not to mention Steve Miller

...being his top advisor. And T's White Nationalism sympathies.

[gratuitous]

30. I had to stop myself

No shortage of sad-inducing nonsense from this administration. But only today does Mr. Swift finally experience a human reaction to it.

[The Roux Comes First]

32. Thank You!

Where has he been?

[CentralMass]

7. If it took him until now to be dissapointed he must have been in a coma.

[bdamomma]

8. On Ari Melber

right now the Dems are laying out the foundation. Dan Rather was on too and Prosecutor Andrew Weismann. Watergate started off slow too, but the more foundation they show, hopefully it will sink in.

That is all well and good, but we have some wicked brainwashed/ gas-lighting tactics out there.

FOX news their viewers need talking points. Which they demonstrate word to word. Which makes us just shake our heads at them. What gullible sad people.

[VarryOn]

9. They acted no better than they are capabale of...

I dont understandy why those being disruptive arent removed from the room. There are rules, and if they dont follow them, kick their assess out.

[Skittles]

11. what happened today

that makes the repuke party any more sickening than it has been for DECADES?

[GoCubsGo]

12. Today was a sad day to be an American.

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Sad and horrifying. Sad that this shit has been going on in our name. Sad and utterly disgusting that 40% of our country is okay with it. And, Jim Swift can go fuck himself. He's part of what got us here. Screw him.

[crickets]

25. +1

[NCLefty]

13. Wasted his entire professional life. In the end, the base wanted the buffoon, not his conserva-ideas

[Pacifist Patriot]

15. The replies to his tweet, if sincere, give me hope.

A lot of stories from people recounting why and when they left the GOP.

[irisblue]

16. He is still pushing Trump gift wrap, so I' m not sure he is being truthful

Jim Swift (@JimSwiftDC) Tweeted:
Tired: Jesus is the Reason for the Season.

Wired: The libs are waging a war on Christmas.

Inspired: https://t.co/qqKD98xIom

Link to tweet

?s=20

[paleotn]

24. Happy Saturnalia!

[Martin Eden]

18. Was he not saddened the day Trump won the Republican nomination for president?

Or is he sad just now, because Trump was exposed for what he's always been?

[warmfeet]

19. I would have no choice

but to kill myself, if I were a repug.

Harsh, no. Not at all.

Am I a hater. Damn fucking straight I am. I hate death and destruction.

This is not a close call, people.

The Republican party, as it currently stands, is the most dangerous entity on this planet.

Will we give them the power to kill all life? Time will tell.

[The Roux Comes First]

33. Where's Kevorkian When They Need Him? (nfm)

[LeftInTX]

20. They don't seem sad to me

[YOHABLO]

21. What just exactly are conservatives trying to conserve?

Their power and ability to hoard money?

[NoMoreRepugs]

22. Sad to be Jim Swift.

[paleotn]

23. Jim, the "conservative movement" is anything but conservative.

It's made up of some half baked propagandists, petty grifters, conspiracy nuts and a bunch of political hacks. More of an infestation than a movement. A plague of parasites.

[VOX]

26. Trump saddens the entire planet. Every day he's in office is a sad day for Earth.

Just read in WaPo that the entire Northern Pacific Ocean is undergoing a climate-change chain reaction that threatens the heart of the Pacific.

Sorry, can’t link right now (behind a paywall), but here’s the gist:

<snip>
The rising temperatures are starting to shut down the single most dynamic sea ice factory on Earth. The intensity of ice generation in the northwestern Sea of Okhotsk exceeds that of any single place in the Arctic Ocean or Antarctica, and the sea ice reaches a lower latitude than anywhere else on the planet. Its decline has a cascade of consequences well beyond Japan as climate dominoes begin to fall.

When sea ice forms here, it expels huge amounts of salt into the frigid water below the surface, creating some of the densest ocean water on Earth. That water then sinks and travels east, carrying oxygen, iron and other key nutrients out into the northern Pacific Ocean, where marine life depends on it.

As the ice retreats, that nutrient-rich current is weakening, endangering the biological health of the vast northern Pacific — one of the most startling, and least discussed, effects of climate change so far observed.

<snip>

[Garrett78]

27. That "conservative movement" got us where we are today. It made Trump possible.

[moonseller66]

28. To all Republicans in the tweet...

..after reading your comments about changing your party, I have to ask...WHY did you become a Republican in the first place? You had a choice. Was it informed or a whim or a prestige thing? You saw what they did with taxes, the deficit and treatment of women and non whites. I really don't understand what you thought they were doing for you.

Has there been, since Ronnie, one thing a Republican has done for a non business person or one of the 1% for that matter that hasn't helped business or the wealthy even more? Every law they suggested, created, supported or passed has benefited the wealthy so much more than common Americans or their families.

I just can't understand. Sorry.